GUILFORD — Olmsted Outlook is a place where passersby can watch ducks languidly glide in with the tide or spot the flash of a leggy heron spear a fish with its long, narrow beak.
Now, its most obvious feature is a hulking excavator sitting at the river’s edge, part of a $388,000 project to rebuild the crumbling seawall undertaken by the Guilford Land Conservation Trust.
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Jim Lally is always looking for a challenge. From building an advanced septic system for the Madison Beach Hotel to developing fish ladders on the Quinnipiac River, Schumack Engineered Construction is certainly more than your average “pick-up truck with two shovels in the back.” Schumack tackles municipal (roads, dams, and bridge work, etc.), residential (drainage, septic, etc.), and commercial (drainage, water main work, etc.) projects with years of experience and expertise. It is, indeed, Schumack’s versatility that has enabled it to create a niche in the construction industry. Jim Lally, owner and president, took over the business in 1979 from his friend, Bill Schumack. Jim liked working on “Engineered Projects” as they are more of a challenge. He pursued these projects and then renamed the company Schumack Engineered Construction.
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Russell Blair, Record Journal February 27, 2012 Harry Olav Haakonsen dedicated his life to fish restoration along Connecticut’s many rivers and streams, so former students and colleagues say it’s only fitting that the Wallace Dam Fishway be named in honor of the late environmentalist. “He died before it happened, but this was always his goal,”…
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Fiona Phelan, Killingworth Krier February 18, 2012 The Killingworth Lions Club has selected James H. Lally as the recipient of its Citizen of the Year award. The award is presented to a citizen of Killingworth who has demonstrated leadership in Community Service. Lally was honored during the annual Lions Club Senior Dinner at St. Lawrence…
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By Jen Matteis Shore Publishing 11/11/2010 – How do you save money working on two different construction sites? One answer is to work on both of them at once. That’s the philosophy behind the simultaneous construction of Madison’s new senior center and ambulance facility, undertaken as an effort to save money when the project’s bids failed…
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Long Island Sound Study Niantic, CT, April 19, 2010 — Today, Congressman Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, joined representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restoration Center (NOAA), U.S. Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FishAmerica Foundation, Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE), the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP),…
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